We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up. — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
No company is hiring anyone to search for messages from aliens. Most people don't seem to think there's much benefit to it. The lack… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Right now, there could well be messages from the stars flying right through this room. Through you and me. And if we had the… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach,… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
While NASA talks about 'Are we alone?' as a number one question, they are putting zero money into searching for intelligent life. There's a… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials. — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
